Pocket implement.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

W. H. NICHOLLS.

POCKET IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTEn .STATEs Patented August 16 1904.

PATENT ()EETcE.

POCKET IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,423, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed August 24, 1903. Serial No. 170,522. (No model.)

To (@ZZ whom it vnay concern:

Be it known that I, WVALTER H. NIoHoLLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Implements, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pocket implements comprising a finger-nail clipper either with or without a cigar-tip cutter; and the objects of my improvement are simplicity and economy in construction and convenience and efficiency in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my implement as folded up ready to carry in ones pocket. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, showing the left-hand end of Figs. 1 and 2, but with the cigar-cutting knife elevated ready for use. Fig. A is a side elevation of my implement with the lever-handles turned back ready for use as a nail-clipper, the cigar-cutting knife being shown in its closed position, but with its open or elevated position indicated in broken lines. Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal section of the same with the lever-handles depressed to close the nail-clipping jaws, the position of the thumb and fingers of the operator in depressing the said lever being indicated in broken lines. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the implement in the position shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is adetached plan view showing the inner face of one of the nail-clipping levers.

The two nail-clipping levers A are preferably formed alike and of sheet metal, with nail-clipping jaws or cutters 8 at one end and bent-up sides 9, with pivotal ears 1O 11, the ear 10 being formed in alinement with one of the sides 9 and the car 11 inset therefrom to form a recess 12, Fig. 7, on its outer side to receive the ear 10 of the companion nail-clipping lever, while in turn the corresponding recess of the said companion member receives the ear 10 of the first-named nail-clippinglever. Thus the outer ear appears on the upper one of the nail-clipping levers when viewed as shown in Figs. 1 and A, while when viewed from the opposite side the outer ear appears on the lower one of the nail-clipping levers. The levers A A are pivoted together by a pin 13, passing through the ears 1O 11, and are forced open by means of a spring 1A of any ordinary construction, preferably a coiled spring wound around the pin 13, with its two arms extending forwardly and bearing on the backs of the said levers in the well-known manner of spring-actuated levers. These levers A A are made so short that a proper leverage for operating the nail-clipping jaws cannot be obtained by the direct application of ones fingers and thumb thereto, and hence I employ the lever-handles B B on separate pivots. I prefer to pivot these handles by means of ears 15 and pins 16 to the rear ends of the sides 9 of the said levers A, the two lugs of each handle lyingin between the said sides, as best shown in Fig. 6. The lever-handle B is a simple plate of sheet metal having a central rib or corrugation 17 with a nail-cleaner 18 at its outer end, while the inner end 15 having the cars 15, is bent at an angle to the main portion of the said lever-handle. Some portion of the implement should form a file, and I prefer to roughen the inner face of the central rib or corrugation for this file, as shown in Fig. 5. The lever-handle B has substantially the same bent angular form at its pivotal or inner end 15, while its outer end is bent at substantially a right angle and is provided with a hole 19, whereby the said end forms the receiving member 19 of a cigar-tip cutter. The said lever-handle B is also slotted longitudinally, as at 20, for the major portion of its length to accommodate the body 21 of the cigar-tip-cutting knife 22. This knife-body 21 is provided with an ofiset 23 to enable its twisted and perforated heel 24: to be pivoted on the same pin 16 as the handle B is pivoted to one of the clipping-levers. The knife-body is doubled upon itself to form the lifting projection 25 at its outer end and then the blade portion or cutting-knife 22 is bent so as to stand at about right angles to the body 21 and lies closely against the inner side of the receiving member 19 of the cigar-cutter.

per levers, with the pivoted lever-handles arand forming a closure at the outer ends of the ranged to act in connection with said clippersaid handles when thus folded over. levers as a compound lever for closing the jaws, and also to fold over upon the outer side 5 of the said clipper-levers when not in use, one Witnesses:

of the said handles having its outer end bent J AMES SHEPARD, at substantially a right angle to its length SHEFFIELD H. CLARKE.

WVALTER H. NICHOLLS. 

